Wallace Ford
Known for ActingBorn 1898-02-11 — died 1966-06-11Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with a small but powerful, stocky physique.
Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent his childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada, where he was ill treated. About age eleven, Ford ran away and did odd jobs, later becoming an usher in a theatre.
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Following his discharge from the Army after WWI, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing on Broadway.
He started on a film career when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him a part in the film Possessed (1931) and went on to appear in over 200 films, including 13 directed by John Ford.
Wallace Ford is buried in an unmarked grave in Culver City, California's Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Known for
Freaks
1932 · as Phroso
Warlock
1959 · as Judge Holloway
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · as Fred Saunders
Harvey
1950 · as The Taxi Driver
T-Men
1947 · as The Schemer
Spellbound
1945 · as Hotel masher
Destry
1954 · as Doc Curtis
My Woman
1933 · as Chick Rollins
The Rainmaker
1956 · as Sheriff Howard Thomas
The Green Years
1946 · as Jamie Nigg
The Man from Laramie
1955 · as Charley O'Leary
Magic Town
1947 · as Lou Dicketts
The Lost Patrol
1934 · as Morelli
Possessed
1931 · as Al Manning
The Matchmaker
1958 · as Malachi Stack
The Set-Up
1949 · as Gus
Dead Reckoning
1946 · as McGee
A Patch of Blue
1965 · as Ole Pa